My First Dictation, with Dragon Naturally Speaking

I'm typing this bit, because I'm currently struggling with the new Dragon dictation software I just installed, having been previously struggling with the software that came with my PC. After going through the training module, this is my first dictation:

Thursday, May 16, 2013 Thursday he may he 16 but it doesn't 13

so I've just installed dragon and it seems to be repeating everything I say I say,, which is really annoying..

which is really annoying So I've just installed dragon

I'm not quite sure how to stop it from repeating everything I'm not quite sure how to stop it from repeating everything because a thank things wants this is totally far this is totally flat because amazing things wants

It also doesn't understand asks a

That end bit was doesn't understand "fucked", which I tried very hard to train it to understand. Not that I swear a lot, but trying to use dictation software of the past couple of weeks has turned me into a bit of a swear bear.

When my wrists aren't totally stuffed, and it's not causing me pain to type, I can type at 65 words per minute. At my current rate of dictation, I seem to get about -65 words per hour.

I had really high hopes for this software, as I know some people who use it happily, and it's used at uni, and comes well-recommended, but my first go at it definitely didn't live up to my expectations. WHAT is the repetition thing about?!?

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